{"id":3382,"date":"2010-12-13T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:37:16","slug":"morning-read-towns-look-at-new-wind-farm-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/13\/morning-read-towns-look-at-new-wind-farm-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Towns look at new wind farm restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a town in Jefferson County banned wind farms, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/16656\/jefferson-county-town-bans-wind-power\">as our David Sommerstein reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The town of Henderson, on the shore of eastern Lake Ontario in Jefferson  County, has side-stepped future wind clashes.  It\u2019s become the first  North Country town to ban all wind turbines &#8211; industrial ones, private  ones, even wind test towers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101213\/NEWS05\/312139985\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that the town of Hammond is considering restrictions on wind farms that would provide locals with new financial guarantees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The board is considering a law proposed by the town&#8217;s wind committee  that would require Iberdrola Renewables to compensate property owners  who see drops in their land values because of the presence of wind  turbines. The proposal also requires the company to buy out any property  owner who objects to living near a turbine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Iberdrola is balking at the proposal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter to the town, Ibedrola senior counsel Mark Epstein told the  town the company was &#8220;very surprised and disappointed&#8221; that the proposal  made its way through the wind committee &#8220;without having the opportunity  to discuss &#8230; fully documented evidence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Are local governments bringing the proper level of skepticism and oversight to these projects?\u00a0 Or are they stifling a promising new industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a town in Jefferson County banned wind farms, as our David Sommerstein reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,883,884,20,4841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}